Raja Rashid Ayub, who was abducted from Adil Market Tulsa Road on September 23, 2018, the area of Police Station (PS) Civil Line, managed to escape from custody of three kidnappers on October 5, 2018 in a hilly area near Torkham Border, near Afghanistan.

The abducted businessman reached at a check post of Khassadars Force at Toll Plaza Shaheed Moar and the Naib Tehsildar Shakeel Rehman handed over the businessman to Rawalpindi police.

Fatima Rashid, wife of Raja Rashid Ayub, resident of Baqir Colony, Lalazar, had appeared before PS Civil Line officials on September 23 and lodged a complaint against two men named Tanvir Ahmed Khan and Munir Khan, employees of National Bank of Pakistan, for allegedly kidnapping her husband.

She added her husband was a business partner with the duo in Rawal Cash and Carry at Makkah Town, Bostan Khan Road and there was a clash between the two parties over a monetary issue. She appealed to the police to register a case against the duo and recover her husband.

He said his brother jumped out of the vehicle and started running towards check post of Khassadars Force at Torkham Border. He told the force his ordeal which immediately brought the matter into notice of Deputy Commissioner Khyber District, Tehsildar Landikotal and Naib Tehsildar Torkham.

The troika then informed the KP police about the recovery of kidnapped person, he said. KP police contacted Rawalpindi police and Sub Inspector Imtiaz Kiyani arrived at Torkhan Border to obtain custody of Raja Rashid Ayub, he added.

He lashed out at the bosses of Rawalpindi police for not arresting the kidnappers.

SI Imtiaz Kiyani, the investigation officer of the case, however, when contacted, confirmed the abducted businessman managed to escape from custody of kidnappers and contacted Khassadars Force at Torkhan Border. “I obtained custody of Raja Rashid at the hands of Naib Tehsildar Torkham Shakeel Rehman,” he said.